We have uploaded a report on this year's Mahasivaratri celebration at
Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh. Guru Maharaj Sri Swami Chidanandaji also
participated in this year's celebration. The report and pictures can be
accessed from:http://www.dlshq.org/announce/sivaratri2003.htm

Yours in the service of Gurudev,

Pannirselvam

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SADHANA IN THE WORLD: A railway engineer came in. He had a doubt to be
cleared.

"Swamiji, you say that we should avoid the company of a worldly man.
Are we not all worldly men, Swamiji? If I, too, am worldly, what do I
get by labelling another as a worldly man and avoiding his company? I
think this is possible only when I renounce the world and come here."

"What is there here? Is this not the world? Is Rishikesh not part of
the world? How can you renounce the world? Where will you go to if you
renounce?"

These questions put the engineer in a thoughtful but very receptive
mood.

"What is meant by a worldly man," said the Master, "is one who is full
of worldliness. A man may live in the world and yet be not of it. That
is the secret. Never allow the evils of the world to get admission into
your heart. Enthrone God in the heart."

"I try to meditate on the Lord in the heart and do Japa. I find it very
difficult. My mind always wanders. It has no taste for Japa," said the
engineer.

"Go on repeating the Name mechanically as a parrot does. In the course
of time the Mantra-power will awaken in you a real love for God. The
real divine feeling will lead you to Bhava Samadhi. Persistent effort
is necessary."

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"The divine Name is an antidote to all miseries, troubles and sorrows.
It is the sole panacea for our sufferings and calamities." - Swami
Sivananda

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